From late September until late November this year, a “mini-moon”, called 2024 PT5 by the astrologers who spotted it ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is keeping a close watch. Two giant asteroids, 2024 RY15 and 2024 RZ21, are set to fly by ...

Comets take the name of the discoverer, whether that be a human or an automated telescopic survey that robotically inspects ...

Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be a new way to detect passing dark matter. MIT physicists ...

most mini-moons come towards Earth from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Unlike Earth’s permanent moon, mini-moons ...

A rare mini-moon, a small asteroid temporarily captured by Earth's gravity, will briefly orbit the planet for two months.

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

Earth is getting a visitor in our orbit for a couple of months.It's nowhere near the size of our actual moon, but they're ...

A small asteroid called 2024 PT5 will temporarily orbit Earth this fall. Here's what it looks like and whether it will be ...

The asteroid is expected to make a “horseshoe path” around Earth over the next two months, researchers wrote in a recent ...

Earth will have a second “mini-moon” in addition to its regular lunar companion for about two months starting on Sept. 29, ...

In just over one week’s time, Earth will gain a new celestial companion that will stay for two months in the planet’s ...